It's raining kids in Connecticut

Updated at 1 p.m. ET: Twenty-six people were killed, including 18 children, when a gunman opened fire in a Connecticut elementary school Friday morning, a law enforcement official said.
The gunman, who is dead, was a 20-year-old from Connecticut, an official said. He was wearing all black and was carrying two 9mm handguns. Another person was being held by police and questioned, an official said.
The incident -- the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 -- sent crying children spilling into the school parking lot as frightened parents waited for word on their loved ones.
"I was in the gym and I heard a loud, like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled," one student at the K-4th grade Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown told NBC Connecticut during its live broadcast. "And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all … started crying.
"All the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us," she added. "So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse and waited for our parents."
Three people were taken to nearby Danbury Hospital, a spokeswoman told NBC Connecticut. She would not elaborate on the ages of the victims or their conditions.
One of those taken to the hospital was a teacher who had been shot in the foot, the Associated Press reported, citing a dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
President Obama was notified about the shooting and continues to receive updates, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
"I think it's important on a day like today to view this as I know the president, as a father does, and I as a father and others who are parents certainly do," Carney said at his daily briefing. "Which is to feel enormous sympathy for families that are affected."

In a photo taken by the Newtown Bee, crying students could be seen being escorted from the school by police. They were taken to a nearby fire station where their parents were picking them up.
A third-grader, Alexis Wasik, told the Hartford Courant that police checked students and staffers before they were escorted to the fire station.
"We had to walk with a partner," she said.
NBC Connecticut reported that the entire school district was in lockdown.
At Sandy Hook, police, ATF and FBI agents were going room to room searching the school.

Newtown is about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 60 miles northeast of New York City.
The K-4 school has about 600 students.

Re: It's raining kids in Connecticut

There have been 31 U.S. school shootings since Columbine. There have been 14 in every other country in the world combined. Do you know how sad that is? Good Ol' USA, home of the most lax gun laws in the world

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It is sad, very much so, but you are not understanding the argument here! It is the people, not the guns. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean you can't get it! I hope you are just trolling because that might be one of the more retarded statements I have ever heard. I am not getting into this anymore.

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Both guns and mental health are issues here, not just one or the other. You could just as easily argue that if something was illegal (in this case, a gun) it's alot harder to get. Maybe in some cases impossible.

There's no perfect answer to this ordeal, and there probably never will be.

And that's all I'm going to say about this. Not taking a side, just don't want to go back and forth in the same debate that's been going on since... well, forever.

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I still remember vividly watching the Columbine aftermath on tv, and 13 years later it's still happening. Whatever is happening to us as a society that drives these people to do this is more than troubling.

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Originally Posted by chbludevil

There have been 31 U.S. school shootings since Columbine. There have been 14 in every other country in the world combined. Do you know how sad that is? Good Ol' USA, home of the most lax gun laws in the world

My "favorite" argument that I hear on message boards/comment sections:

"You can kill someone with a frying pan and a car. Does that mean we should ban those too?"

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Innocent women and children are killed everyday all over the world caused by the US and our weapons. No one seems to care about them. just our own... I wonder which artists will perform at the benefit concert?

Re: It's raining kids in Connecticut

Originally Posted by chbludevil

There have been 31 U.S. school shootings since Columbine. There have been 14 in every other country in the world combined. Do you know how sad that is? Good Ol' USA, home of the most lax gun laws in the world

End of story. And anyone who continues to defend this needs to get their shit straight.

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